title: [Update on the different histological types of renal cell carcinoma and their specific treatment].
abstract: There are 9 histological types of renal carcinoma. The most frequent is the renal clear cell carcinoma that has the multilocular cystic renal cell carcinoma and the Xp11-2 translocation renal cell carcinoma as main differential diagnosis and for which treatment is standardized. In other histologic forms, the most efficient medical treatments of metastatic diseases may be: sorafenib in the chromophobe renal cell carcinoma, mTOR inhibitors in papillar renal carcinomas, chemotherapy in Bellini carcinoma.
authors.affiliation: Service d'Urologie, Hôpital Foch, 40, rue Worth, 92151 Suresnes, France.
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Neuzillet
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Rioux-Leclercq
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Escudier
mesh_terms: D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000145:classification* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology